I just got a gut wrenching phone call from my neice

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Originally Posted by Nes

Could you explain more? (If you know) How do you involuntarily commit someone? Presumably you need a doctor on board?

I work at a Crisis Residential Unit. Its for psychiatric patients and for substance abusers. The substance abusers who come there are voluntary and are placed on a Librium protocol. For more extreme abusers, they are sent to a 36 day program. To have someone committed, a mental hygiene is filed and if the person is unsafe, involuntarily for treatment they are sent to a lockup facility.